INTO THE HAND OF GOD

On this National Election Day, I would like to give you this small poem to consider. It can help calm our hearts, and give us all hope for the future:

"GATE OF THE YEAR" (by Minnie Louise Haskins, 1908)

I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year:
"Give me a light, that I may tread safely into the unknown!"
And he replied:
"Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God;
That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way."

So, I went forth, and finding the Hand of God, trod gladly into the night;
And He led me toward the hills and the breaking of day in the lone East.

So, heart, be still! What need our little life,
Our human life, to know, If God hath comprehension?
In all the dizzy strife Of things both high and low,
God oft hideth His intention.

Put your hand into the hand of God.